Mary de Lellis Gough

Sister Mary de Lellis Gough (15 February 1892 – 7 April 1983) was an Irish–American mathematician.

Life

She was born in Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland. Her parents were Ellen Dunne and Walter Gough. She came to Texas in 1909 with a group of young Irish women, and joined the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, taking vows as Mary de Lellis in 1911.[1]

Career

While working as a high school teacher, she studied at the Catholic University of America. She graduated in 1920, earned a master's degree in 1923, and completed her PhD from the same university in 1931.[1] Her PhD dissertation was entitled On the condition for the existence of triangles in and circumscribed to certain types of the rational quartic curve and having a common side and supervised by Aubrey Edward Landry.[1][2]

She taught mathematics at Incarnate Word College from 1920 to 1943.[1]

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